Ever heard of CRYPTOWALL ? I think that I got it from looking at PDFs on
the web while doing some research. It's a trojan, not a virus. It runs in
the background encrypting files. Then it pops up a message demanding 500
euros for the key!
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Steven Hirsch wrote:
Out of curiousity, were you running any sort of protective software (e.g.
Symantec, Kaspersky, etc.)?
AVG and McAfee. not necessarily the best stuff.
Scan, while the malware was screwing stuff up in the background, did not
find anything to complain about!
